Today is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who! After counting down all year long, we have finally reached the day! The last bit of viewing before seeing The Day of the Doctor is what could be considered the closest thing to a 40th anniversary special.
Doctor Who: The Scream of the Shalka was an animated original story that was released in 2003. Starring Richard E. Grant as the 9th Doctor and Sophie Okonedo, Derek Jacobi, and even a cameo by an as yet to be cast 10th Doctor David Tennant. For that moment in time, it was like a tastey morsel to a starving man. It wasn't perfect but we consumed it with relish since we hadn't had anything new on television for 7 years. Richard E Grant was a great, moody, dark Doctor. Derek Jacobi was pitch perfect as the Master, who was now an android living in the TARDIS. Sophie fulfilled the companion role quite well and could have been considered the first black companion in the TARDIS long before Mickey Smith or Martha Jones. All in all , it was lovely romp.
As fate would have it, at the moment this story came out, the BBC announced that they would be bringing Doctor Who back to television with Russell T Davies at the helm. It was quickly announced there after that Christopher Eccleston was cast as the real 9th Doctor and history got back on track to the future. The Scream of the Shalka and Richard E Grant's Doctor became an anomaly and outside of continuity, akin to the Peter Cushing Doctor Who films. But for one moment in time and space, it was the next chapter in Doctor Who, before time was rewritten.
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